It's coming to a point where my store of dried nettles has been run down (after 2 years), with needing to replenish that and with the plan of brewing some nettle beer and wine, I'll be needing to dry a fair amount of nettles. Can anyone suggest any decent way to dry them? Tying them into bundles to hang is begging to be stung and when I dried them between newspaper last time a few layers got damp (admittedly they ended up sagging onto the floor), so does anyone have any idiot proof drying methods for this idiot?

To be fair, looking at the price of a dehydrator, they're not that bad, although against buying one, I could just pick some dock at the same time, grit my teeth and just hang them off my bed as I do with any other herb

Not too sure doofa, can't remember if the wine and beer ask for fresh or dry. The last time I foraged them there was enough (dry and crushed)to fill, very full, a large Marmite tub. That's probably half an hour's worth of picking.